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Triple jump result almost six feet longer than that of the real first place girl
The California boy who thinks you’re a “child,” “idiotic” and a “bully” for pointing out that he competes against girls in track and field has won another trifecta of events at a recent track event.
At the Ontario (California) Relays on February 21, Jurupa Valley High School junior AB Hernández finished first in the triple jump, high jump, and long jump.
Hernández’s triple jump effort resulted in a (girls’) meet record 40′ 7½”, almost six feet longer than that of the second-place competitor.
Hernandez’s long jump of 18′ 9½” was three and a half feet longer than second place, and his high jump of 5′ 6″ was four inches higher than the next closest competitor’s.
When asked by an interviewer “What do you think really clicked today in the triple jump?” Hernández replied “I don’t know … I think I was really nervous … I was like ‘I’m so nervous.'”
He continued: “I just keep telling myself ‘You are #1’ and it’s yours to lose, so if you lose it’s fine, but just keep that drive to get it back.”
Last year as a sophomore at the CIF Southern Section Track and Field Finals, Hernández won the long jump and triple jump, but finished 7th in the high jump. He said the high jump result “negated the claims of his critics”: “All I thought was, I don’t think you understand that this puts your idiotic claims to trash.” ‘She can’t be beat because she’s biologically male.’ Now you have no proof that I can’t be beat.”
The outlet Capital & Main said Hernández had been “the target of a right-wing campaign,” and that studies show trans athletes “have not outperformed their cisgender counterparts.”
Following Hernández’s performances last year and a complaint from President Trump about the unfairness of boys competing against girls, the California Interscholastic Federation announced a “pilot” program that allowed additional biological girls to compete in the state high school track and field championships.
However, the CIF noted the program only applied to that specific meet. Its “Gender Diverse Youth Sport Inclusivity Toolkit” still considers objections to trans athlete participation in sporting events as “discrimination.”
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